Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]
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Day four of the Danny Masterson prelim: The arguments and a ruling!

[Mueller vs. Mesereau]

Well, it all comes down to this. We’re beginning a little later today, 10:30 am, but the testimony and cross-examining is finished, and now we’ll get to see Deputy DA Reinhold Mueller and defense attorney Tom Mesereau give their closing []

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The latest crazy: QAnon Shaman’s attorney calls patriots ‘short bus people’

 Some links to Q-related items today…

The real virologists tell Q patriots the vaccine can take five years to kill []

Day three of the Danny Masterson prelim: Jane Doe 3’s cross-examination continues

[Yesterday’s strange moment: Mesereau brings Hubbard in!]

We were struck by a comment made after yesterday’s session by our friend TX Lawyer. He pointed out that it is the job of Danny Masterson’s defense attorney Tom Mesereau not only to push the witnesses but also the []

With Trump shilling for vaccines, Q patriots wonder, is Putin really our man?

 Some links to Q-related items today…

With Trump shilling for vaccines, Putin and his nukes may be the last hope for Q []

Day two of the Danny Masterson prelim: Jane Doe 1’s cross-examination continues

[Judge Olmedo, and Danny Masterson at his Sept 18 appearance]

News organizations normally have a policy of not naming sexual assault victims in their stories. For some reason, however, some of the media outlets covering yesterday’s preliminary hearing in the Danny Masterson rape case chose to ignore this policy, and they used the abbreviated version of []

Jane Doe 1’s brutal testimony about alleged rape by Danny Masterson on Day 1 of prelim

 [UPDATE: See our reports from the courtroom below, after the victim descriptions.]

We’re on the scene this morning in Los Angeles, bringing you coverage at Los Angeles Superior Court as Danny Masterson faces a preliminary hearing on charges that he raped three different women. []

Dallas Q patriot kegger gains a major figure from anti-vaxx flick ‘Plandemic’

 Some links to Q-related items today…

The grift goes on and []

Q’s been quiet since December, but patriots are sure he’ll show up again any time

 Some links to Q-related items today…

The pillow guy can count on the support of []

Scientology hits on the perfect theme for its Chicago fundraising: Blues Brothers!

 Scientology is always hunting around for new themes to use in its fundraising, from Star Wars to The Last Samurai. And we didn’t think it could get more on-the-nose than Caribbean pirates and 30’s gangsters asking for your dough.

Hand over yer booty, me []

AZ Republican election official calls latest Trump rant about audit ‘unhinged,’ ‘insane’

[Stephen Richer]

Some links to Q-related items today…

Elvis was the tip of the spear, []